Gosh, I love the little tea set idea. You can find plastic ones for next to nothing in a store like BigLots.

I like to take pictures from the year and make them into ornaments. We get little frames from the craft store and let my daughter paint them. It's a nice way to remember what your child looked like that year.

Thanks! We found some cute decorations for it tonight.. I found pink and pearl icicles (sp) and she always get's a little ballerina ornament of some kind so that will just add to it!

We usually try to make a craft for the tree (the real one) and this year we are getting some of the great scrap book paper they have out and making little cones and pasting buttons and other little things on the seams then tying cute ribbon to make it a basket cone. Then we are filling them w/some of those minature ornaments so it looks like toys filling the cones. Candy and other stuff too,, then hanging them on the tree... fun fun..

I always do Christmas decorating with my mom. Every year it's a different theme.

My favourite so far (last year's): Japanese paper cranes (representing peace, longevity, and happiness) handmade from origami paper in various oriental designs, pierced through with needle and strung up with gold string. Complemented by miniature paper lantern lights in Christmas colours. Finished off with small jasmine incense cones (cones - not sticks!), upon which we applied a bit of superglue at the tips and then attached them to silver string to be hung as ornaments.

This one took a little time (100 paper cranes and 50 incense cones, anyone? ), but it was definitely worth it. A different and meaningful, but rather understated look. Plus, the jasmine cones definitely added a sort of exotic top note to the natural pine smell

We do our tree in a color theme of blue and red, with clear lights. Each year, my step-mom gets my wife a special Christmas ornament, with the year on it, and each one is different and extremely detailed. She's got 6 or 7 now, and they set off the blue and red pretty neatly.

We switched from a real tree to a fake tree about 3 years ago. I swore I'd never have a fake tree in my house, but dang if it isn't SO much easier, and we spent some change on a nice-looking fake.

There are actually some very nice sprays for that. Also, I remember there are scents that you can put a dap/drop on a light bulb and the heat spreads the holiday smell (apples and cinnamon, pine, etc.).